A lonely goatherd

[peredur_glyn]

Argh, my brain is not working and I need to radically realter my analysis procedure to cope with something I hadn't considered before. Question: does a mismatching head/modifier order in a clause containing a dichotomous subject/verb order suggest an ambiguous matrix language? Does the head/modifier order even matter to the remaining morpheme order

Comments

[kroki_refur]

Wow, I thought the goat song was hard enough just in Welsh!

Ble is indeed a borrowing, but the Greeks really do use it a lot more often than their two other words for blue. I, however, never use it at all when I'm speaking Greek, since it bugs me just as it does you. One of the other Greek words for blue is ghalazios (stress on the second syllable), which would be nice and impossible to fit in the metre.

On another note, my friend Matti translated a couple of Finnish Christmas carols into Old English this Christmas, and everyone in my unit sang them :D. It was cool. One of them was gorgeous, and the other one was about pigs, which would also be very appropriate to translate into Welsh...

[peredur_glyn]

I asked the Greeks for a "blue" word, and the first word they gave me was long (maybe indeed ghalazios and probably beyond the choir picking up (Finnish at least has a vaguely similar phonology to Welsh). They then gave me the ble word.

A carol about pigs sounds awesome. Do you have a translation/tune somewhere for me to gack??

[symbelgal]

Who's Tim, and why do you want to waste him? :-P

[peredur_glyn]

He killed my father. Big mistake. He's going down. Permanently. Lock and load.

[filius_lupi]

I'm surprised there wasn't a pub on a hill too.

[peredur_glyn]

Alas, there was only time for one raucous impromptu Welsh singalong.